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The prayer book "Waymarks of Benefits" (Dala"il al-Khayrat), originally composed in fifteenth-century Morocco, was frequently copied from Senegal to Turkestan, at the western and eastern extremes of the Islamic world. It was the most popular…

Matt needs to get some sleep!

The first image is the cover of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the second image is the title page of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from 1885 in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

Illuminated manuscript illustrating Solomon enthroned at the top centre of the illustration. The illustration of the wise and powerful king features him above horizantal rows of his subjects. Simillarly to the AKM PS24 robe, the character known in…

The Mishneh Torah, not to be confused with the early medieval Mishnah seen in the eleventh-century manuscript pages appearing earlier in the exhibition, was composed by the Sephardic Jewish philosopher and physician Maimonides (1138-1204). Born in…

Manuscript leaf from the Baysunghur Shahnameh Manuscript. The illustration depicts a scene from Mahsan al-Asrar (Treasury of Secrets) with an encounter between Sultan Sanjar and an Old Woman

The interviewer and interviewee discuss the potential of adapting Noli into a film or TV series. The interviewee speculates that perhaps teaching the text as a required academic course has taken the significance out of it over the years, so people…

The interviewer asks the interviewee to comment on his edition of the novel, and how he thought it differed from learning the text as a textbook. The interviewee replies that he thinks learning it in the novel format, instead of a textbook one, was…

The interviewer asks the interviewee if the school environment impacted how he personally learned the book. The interviewee explains that the school environment helped him and other students learn the book, because the lessons, the discussions, and…

The interviewer asks the interviewee if there was a particular scene or character that impacted him the most as he read the novel, as well as to recall what impression he had of the overall novel at the time. The interviewee names the protagonist,…